Kiss My Knits!

I: Load my playlist on random.
I: Pick my favorite lines from the first 10 songs, excluding those lines which contain the song’s title.
I: Post those lines.
You: Guess what song each line comes from.
You: Don’t use Google or any other website which would allow you to easily derive the answers

1. It’s true today I saw it from the plane/ aeroplanes were never built to fly.
2. Blue jean baby, L.A. lady, seamstress for the band
3. napoleon/ wore a black hat/ ate lots of chicken/ and conquered half europe
4. “Gee my life’s a funny thing, am I still too young?”
5. And she said, “I’ve swallowed a secret burning thread/ It cuts me inside, and often I’ve bled”
6. It swings/ It jives/ It shakes all over like a jelly fish,
7. And of the midnight picnic/ Once upon a time/ Before the rain began…
8. and they stood at the edge of the earth to see the view/ they threw stones into space and she fell and he did too
9. If I am dancin’ Roll up the floor./ If I am whistlin’ Whewt me out the door!
10. Can’t you see the sunshine/ Can’t you just feel the moonshine

The bad news: The eyedrops that we got for the cat, the stuff that cost $100.49? It was supposed to be refrigerated. The vet’s office didn’t refrigerate it. So the cat was in medical boarding for the last three days, getting medicine that was improperly stored. This stuff was supposedly critical for the cat to get, and had to be administered every two hours. So now there’s a concern that the cat may not have gotten the full benefit, AND that we wasted our money.

The good news: I can be very polite and diplomatic but firm, as anyone who’s dealt with me in Dragonrealms knows. (Okay, actually I apparently am getting a reputation as a pussycat, but I assure you it masks a steely interior.) As a result, the vet refunded the boarding charges for the last visit, bought new medication, and had an employee deliver it to our door, about 20 minutes away from the vet. I believe dropping 2 large on a cat at their facility was helpful to them in making this decision. However, this was absolutely above and beyond. They didn’t have to do this, but they did, and it really turned me around from “severely pissed off” to “happy and smiling.” Kudos, Animal Medical Hospital. Also, their vets say that the medicine shouldn’t have lost too much efficacy over the last 48 hours, although I have a call in to a friend of mine who is a vet who will confirm or deny that for me.

The better news: I have made a gift for a friend who has no idea that I have done this, and no idea that it is coming. Doing this always makes me feel somehow giddy and at peace at the same time. I think this person will be very pleased, and that puts a smile on my face above and beyond the usual Christmas cheer.

Well, the cat’s ears are doing much better. Another week of twice-daily antibiotic drops and they should be okay. The ulcer on the eye is clearing up too, although now there’s a complication with that.

The vet says that the cat has the herpes virus, as many cats do, and the stress to her immune system has caused it to flare up. Dendritic uulcers have formed around the point of the original ulcer. Apparently, when the eye is stained, this looks like little fingerlings radiating out. So now we will have to do drops every two hours for the next 48 hours. And the drops will probably cost 50 to 100 bucks. We have to get them at a regular pharmacy.

Because there’s no way we can give her eyedrops every two hours, antibiotic ointment in her eye every six hours, artificial tears every eight hours, and eardrops every 12 hours, she will be boarded again for a couple of days at Christmas. We have passed the $2000 mark on the cat. A cat, I will remind you, which we don’t even like.

Merry freakin’ Christmas, everyone.

ETA: The drops came to $100.49. And they have to be kept refrigerated. Yeah, it’ll be a blast putting fridge-cold eyedrops into a cat’s eye.

My daughter has some wooden cutout letters that she likes to use to spell things with. Her spelling and reading is great, but the manual dexterity isn’t there, so she uses preset letters to play with a lot of the time.

She came running in to me to say, “What did I write?” So I followed her in to see, laid out on the floor, EYE POD.

That’s my little Mac geek girl!

Just this morning, on the way to take my daughter to school, I commented to my husband that I wished I had someplace to write down all my patterns, because I keep forgetting things like how many stitches to cast on on which needles to make the right sized hat. And what arrives in my mailbox today?

Knit: A Personal Handbook! Fresh from my wish list! This thing even has a built in needle sizer and gauge finder! I could not be more psyched! Thank you thank you thank you, chaospearl! You rock the Casbah!

Finally! Christmas shopping for the nieces and nephews is done! There are eight, so it’s always a bit of a challenge (and bank breaker). Everybody gets two books and a toy. Exception to the rule: If they’re too young to even know what Christmas is, we go a little light on the gifts. We give books because they’re always good gifts and we love to read, and the toy in case they hate the books. Besides, when you’re a kid, you need something bright and shiny under the tree, not just books.

The hubby and I usually have a little rule, that we don’t give toys that make noises to other family members, because then the next year they might turn around and give us a drum or something. However, one kid is getting a ladybug enclosure and certificates for ladybug larvae this year, so hopefully we won’t get an ant farm next year.

Now to wrap and ship – and finish shopping for everyone else!

Stolen from colorwhirl, who stole it from gannet, who stole it from supergee, and on back into the depths of LJ history.
1. Steal a friend’s icon
2. Badly edit a santa hat onto it.
3. Post for the delight and edification of others

Sooo… here are two!

aunt_reexy

chaospearl

Whee! That was fun! Somebody’s just gotta replace Blasword’s hat, that’s all I’m sayin’.

And now, finally, the last remaining niece has a felted purse.

So now that’s
Kristina
Alyssa
Brianna
and Alex.

Now my husband’s family can stop having children, thank you very much.

So now I’m thinking that for my Secret Santa, I may knit a pair of felted slippers: Fuzzyfeet from Knitty. However, I am contemplating sending the recipient the ginormous unfelted slippers and a zippered pillowcase, so that they can have the science project fun of throwing them in a hot-water washing machine and letting them get down to the perfect size.

Good idea? Bad idea?

If I do it, go with something subdued, or something rainbowy and crazy??

ETA: Now I hear through the grapevine that my intended recipient may not have a washing machine. ARRGGGH!!

Good for you! You are a simple bride!

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